Test oath

An oath of loyalty to government Test paper: a paper or instrument shown to a jury as evidence. In Englishlaw. Test act: the statute 25 Car. IL, c. 3, which provided that all persons having any office, or receiving pay from the crown, or holding a place of trust under it, should take the oaths of alle- ^ance and supremacy, and subscribe a declaration against transubstautiation, and also receive the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, according to the usage of the Church of England, As to the sacrament, repealed by the statute 9 Geo. IV., c. 17, and a new declaration substituted.